WEDDINGS

Ellen Braitman, David Shapiro

Published: March 9, 1997

Ellen Myra Braitman, an assistant editor at Consumer Reports in Yonkers, is to be married today to David Joseph Shapiro, a litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine, the New York law firm. Rabbi Irwin Zeplowitz is to officiate at the Puck Building in New York.

Ms. Braitman, who will keep her name, graduated from Cornell University. Mr. Shapiro graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a master's degree in English studies from Oxford University and a law degree from Columbia University. The couple graduated from the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.

The bride, 28, is the daughter of Susan Braitman and Dr. Stephen Braitman of West Islip, L.I. Dr. Braitman, a urologist in Islip Terrace, L.I., is the chief of urology at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, L.I. The bride's mother is a Suffolk County assistant district attorney in Riverhead, L.I.

The bridegroom, 34, is a son of Dr. and Mrs. Franklyn Shapiro of Dundas, Ontario, where Dr. Shapiro is the founder and director of the Wilson Medical Center for industrial and general medicine.